PRQ did confirm to TorrentFreak that it had been visited by police, but it was about specific clients' IP addresses rather than the two sites it hosts.

Not about Wikileaks

A Swedish prosecutor has since told Swedish news outlet Expressen.se that the operation is not about Wikileaks.

However, this does not explain why the Pirate Bay went down earlier today. While the site is said to be back up (in the UK at least, according to Thinq) it's torrent tracker system does seem to be hobbled.

Despite this coincidence, the raids to seem to be targetin individuals who make up the Warez Scene instead, which is at the heart of a number of illegal music, movie and keygen creations on the web.

So far only four people have been arrested in connection with the raids but as it is something which is happening in many countries at once, expect this number to rise.